Class X

 Prose

1. The Last Lesson

2. Macbeth

3. The Child's Return

4. The Imp and the Peasant's Bread

5. On Saying Please

6. The Diamond Necklace

7. The Bishop's Candlesticks

Poetry

1. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?

2. Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower

3. The Charge of the Light Brigade

4. Song of the Flower

5. Preludes

6. The Frog and the Nightingale

7. A Day

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